Lecture Modules - Chapter 10: Dating, Mate Selection, and Living Together - Lecture Notes: CDFS 312 Sec06 3762 Family & Personal Development

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• three-quarter

• elders

• economic, political, and social status

• usually permanent and stable

• the high divorce rate in the United States can partly be linked to individuals making less-than-rational decisions regarding a mate.

• growth of dating and individual-choice courtship has been linked with the decline of the double standard

• often more creative

• Homogamy

• Endogamy

• Exogamy

• propinquity

• .  Stimulus-value-role theory

• Reiss’s wheel theory of love.

• Studies have shown that violent dates are likely to become violent mates

• 68 to 85%